Interview questions: How do you handle stress/pressure?
Answer tips/answer samples:
Following are some sample answers to this interview question:
• I know stress is an important issue at work. Any employee is supposed to face with this issue and any job poses threat of stress to some extent. I have prepared myself very well for this issue. I know many measures to balance the pace at work while maintaining a certain level of stress to keep motivated at work.
• Well, at work, I don’t talk about stress, instead, about situations. I behave in accordance with the situation I am in. You may call some situations as stressful, but I will only tell you that such situations are more challenging and require more of me to fulfill.
• I work better under pressure, fortunately. Perhaps I am more suitable to stressful job as I love challenging responsibilities.
• There is one good measure to handle stress at work, sport and training. I always spend a couple of hours at the gym after the work, and it is very helpful to me in clearing all the pressure in my mind.
• I always organize my work very carefully. Those important shall be dealt with first, and those of less importance shall be performed latter. Being able to maintain such performance and I am able to handle stress very well, especially in dealing with multi-tasks.
• Well, to me, may be stress lead to innovation. In the past, my working environment is very stressful, however, it helped me realize many useful measures to eliminate it, and as a result, my performance has increased outstandingly.